We have a bipartisan urgency to deal with this crisis and it is frustrating to me that in this hearing a lot of folks want to try to levy other issues that are not central to dealing with this scourge.

We need to use every foreign policy tool we have to stop the flow of fentanyl into our country.

We have to do more and technology is one way of doing more, but the truth of the matter is until we close our border this issue continues.

I believe, Senator, as I sit here that the cartels are acting with deliberate, calculated treachery.

I called this hearing because this is a national urgent issue and there are foreign policy dimensions to it.

I doubt Xi Jinping cares about his chemical and pharmaceutical industry supplying the Mexican cartels that are flooding the United States with fentanyl.

We should be able to invest more in ports of entry to get a lot more fentanyl before it crosses the border.

I know some of what we did in the IRA has made European nations kind of mad.

Thank you to the witnesses.

I am urging the Biden administration to take additional steps to confront the fentanyl epidemic.

We should be able to invest more in ports of entry to get a lot more fentanyl before it crosses the border.

I called this hearing because this is a national urgent issue and there are foreign policy dimensions to it.

We need to use every foreign policy tool we have to stop the flow of fentanyl into our country.

I am not satisfied in either of the two contexts that we are doing what we need to do.

Let us focus on where the challenge really is. It is at ports of entry.

I doubt Xi Jinping cares about his chemical and pharmaceutical industry supplying the Mexican cartels that are flooding the United States with fentanyl.

That is why I co-authored the Fentanyl Sanctions Act with Senator Schumer in 2019.

We have a bipartisan urgency to deal with this crisis and it is frustrating to me that in this hearing a lot of folks want to try to levy other issues that are not central to dealing with this scourge.